NLCIO Historical Charter

SLCCC Charter

9/9/96

Introduction

The DOE supports a distributed information technology
infrastructure to meet the scientific information, computation, and
communication requirements of its many programs and the management and
administrative activities of its workforce and laboratories. These
requirements span the range from supercomputers to desktop workstations
and personal computers, including such networking components as ESnet,
and a wide variety of information resources as diverse as information
servers and large scientific databases as well as unique experimental
facilities shared by researchers around the country and even the world.
This infrastructure is geographically distributed across the DOE
complex including all the laboratories as well as other institutions
hosting DOE funded researchers and facilities around the world. The
program requirements and infrastructure also cross federal agency and
international boundaries. These diverse elements that support the
various DOE missions will benefit from coordination across the DOE
laboratory system, but coordination is a task that reaches beyond DOE
and has potential impacts on national competitiveness issues and the
effectiveness of the nation's scientific activities.

Purpose

The Systems of Labs' Computing Coordinating Committee (SLCCC) is to
advise laboratory directors and to provide an interface to DOE
organizations on issues in computing and information processing. The
SLCCC will also function as a forum for information exchange, consensus
building, and coordination of the major activities in scientific
computing and information processing.

Membership

As a strategic planning level coordinating body, the SLCCC will
consist of members who are at the Associate Director level or similar
positions with executive level responsibilities for electronic
scientific and business information, computing, networks, and
information technology research and development. In cases where this
function is split along scientific and business lines, a laboratory
would be represented by two people.

The following laboratories will be included in the SLCCC membership:

Ames Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Non-voting participation of DOE Offices is encouraged.

Non-voting representation from appropriate committees is encouraged.

It is expected, therefore, that the membership will be
knowledgeable of Laboratory programs, DOE missions and the role
information technology plays in fostering support in these areas. In
addition, they will be knowledgeable about emerging computer,
communication and information technologies and appreciative of the
operational impact which technological advancements or policy changes
may have on DOE research and administrative activities.

Voting

Decisions will normally be taken by consensus. Where voting is
appropriate, each member laboratory will have one vote. Ballots may be
cast by members during meetings or by electronic mail to the Chair,
within 3 working days of SLCCC meetings, by voting members who were not
present.

Officers

The Officers shall consist of a Chair and a Chair-elect. The Chair
shall be elected by the full membership and shall serve for one year.
The Chair-elect shall be elected by the full membership at the first
meeting of the calendar year. The Chair will form a nominating
committee to identify appropriate candidate(s) for elections.

Relationships

The SLCCC will provide the following interfaces:

Advise the national laboratory directors who serve on the
DOE formed committees and boards deliberating issues involving
scientific and administrative computing and communications.

Interface with DOE organizations on matters of mutual interest or concern.

Activities

The SLCCC shall undertake such studies and activities as its
membership proposes and agrees. Working groups will be formed to
examine specific matters of importance to the Laboratories.
Recommendations from the working groups will be addressed by the SLCCC
membership.

Meetings

Regular meetings of the SLCCC shall be scheduled by the Chair. They
shall be scheduled at times and places to be most effective in
conducting the business of the SLCCC, but in no case shall there be
less than two meetings per calendar year. Meetings will be announced
via electronic mail. Members are permitted, when necessary, to bring
subject area experts to assist them with agenda items.

Normally meetings will be open. However, when appropriate, the Chair may call meetings of the SLCCC membership only.

Amendments

This Charter may be amended by a two-thirds vote of all SLCCC members, at two successive meetings of the SLCCC. Proposed changes should be sent to the Laboratory Directors for comment after the first vote.